Buffalo Woman Kills Man, His 2 Sons and Herself

BUFFALO, Nov. 9 (AP)—A woman killed the man with whom she lived and his two sons today, held off policemen with sporadic gunfire for more than three hours and then shot herself dead, the police said.

About 20 policemen went to the house after neighbors reported that a woman was firing a shotgun from a second‐floor window.

The police said they considered using tear gas but decided against it because they had been told there were young children in the house. They said they did not know the man and two boys were dead until they entered the apartment three hours after the shooting began.

One policeman entered the building from the rear after the woman had been gone, from the window for about an hour. He found Alice Moore, 26 years old, dead of a shotgun wound in the head. Also dead of gitnishot wounds were Claude McClain, 30, and his sons, Douglas, 7, and Ronald, 5.

The woman's brother Joseph Moore, said she had not been will for some time and had been hospitalized recently.

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